an anecdote           
                                          
 today  it rained, and i would go outside 
 i thought, so  i  smoked a  pipe and got 
 dressed,  and   outside  the   rain  had 
 turned  into snow so  thick  that it was 
 as  dense fog ... and then i went to get 
 the mail, but there was  a woman and  we 
 talked a little. now  because i was high 
 and it was snowing so  funny  and  i had 
 an umbrella against the  snow, but  snow 
 all over my face anyway, and i  wondered 
        about myself, and my life